Sentences with phrase «of public morality»

Several of the teachers of values education believe that only a Christian perspective can renew the foundations of public morality.

One side's vision of public morality will win out.

Marr wants to insist on the futility of any expression of public morality that must rely on theological premises (which he calls «dogma»).

Stephen L. Carter warns that we must not fall into the error of speaking «as though the Constitution and the decisions explicating it constitute the whole of public morality.»

They had tacitly accepted a truce on theological discussion in order to concentrate on a task in which they were all at one — action in the spheres of public morality and social evils.

Until quite recently, Americans have debated the issues of public morality in theological terms which they thought had something to do with truth claims.

As Richard knew far better than the many Jews he criticized for departing from the teachings of the Jewish tradition on questions of public morality, Jews have no plausible identity when they are unfaithful to their revelation - based tradition, just as their revelation - based tradition has no worldly reality without real Jews faithfully practicing it.

The guardians of public morality fretted about the spread of vulgar divorce to the middle and working classes.

Yet even as the politics of the progressive paradigm comes under skeptical reconsideration, the model of public morality that goes with it remains largely unexamined.

It points to a much larger issue in the whole area of public morality: Can a corporate entity — a nation, a tribe, a people — repent?

First, Tony Blair will go on trial - principally for Iraq but also for the utter degeneration of public morality over which he presided.

In recent years horror directors John Carpenter and Wes Craven have confronted their genre's alleged role in debasing the masses — engaging the conservative's paranoia that Hollywood is a prime polluter of public morality — and in doing so they've both taken interesting risks with their formulas and fans.

Because of the «realistic» violence Joe Lieberman was brought into the forefront as an upholder of public morality.

Bischoff wants to insist upon the futility of any expression of public morality that is not ecclesiastically based.

Consequently, secular humanists reject religious doctrine and divine revelation as the basis of public morality and decision - making.

Several of the teachers of values education believe that only a Christian perspective can renew the foundations of public morality — even in a Hindu context — just as it was the encounter with Christianity that prompted Gandhi (and many of his generation) to revise the dominant understanding of Hinduism.